Gareth Southgate to make nine changes to England side for Switzerland friendly

Brooke Bennett

Saturday's match at Wembley was Gareth Southgate's side's first fixture since they reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russian Federation.

'He may have mistakes like everybody else, but we have one of the best in the world.

Ronaldo and Modric both played significant roles in Real Madrid's Champions League win - the latter also getting the World Cup Golden Ball - while Salah enjoyed a remarkable and record-breaking debut campaign with Liverpool. When you've got that supreme confidence because you know you can receive under pressure and you know that you can dribble past people, pass past people, in any nation over the last period of time he was the standout player. I think we've got some players who can and have shown tonight they can perform at that level, and there's some that are still a work in progress.

They had dropped down the ranking due to poor results and the coach has the aim of bringing them back up again with the UEFA Nations League a good test.

"That's what I want, to reduce the space and press a lot and against a team with three defenders it was very hard", Luis Enrique said.

The game would end in defeat for England, who were deservedly beaten by their technically superior opponents.

The only one in my lifetime is Paul Gascoigne and I'm not sure he was developed, I think he was a outcome of a unique talent, Southgate, 48, said of his former team-mate whose final England cap came in 1998. "I think an outstanding talent like him would", he said.

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